CVE-2020-1739

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Published 2021-04-07 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.9.7+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.9.7+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.9.7+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.9.7+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.9.7+dfsg-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	ansible	`<2.7.17`	`2.7.17`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.8.0a1,<2.8.11`	`2.8.11`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.9.0a1,<2.9.7`	`2.9.7`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.9.0,<2.9.6`	`2.7.17`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.